Blue Marvel.
Current Starbrand has done nothing impressive. It's wielder got put on his @$$ by Hulk/Hyperion/Thor. Current Starbrand did NO damage to the Avengers.
BM was taking it to the Avengers (Ares, Wonderman, Sentry) WHILE trying to reason with them. He flash KOed Sentry and was manhandling Ares and Wonderman.
BM got this.
Originally posted by Zack FairStarbrand didn't need to know anything to BFR Hulk into orbit, cut Abyss in half with a single blast, disintegrate the world's consciousness, and hold an entire Avengers squad in check... while holding back. It was both instinctual and unintentional (the scary part).
Starbrand beats the shit out of Blue Marvel if he figures out how to use his powers.Until then BM will be using him as a punching bag.
Starbrand tanking attacks from Hulk, Thor and universal strength Hyperion is no joke.
BM will hit him and Starbrand won't even feel it. He might get pissed off though and start wrecking Blue Marvel.
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Originally posted by Zack Fair
Starbrand beats the shit out of Blue Marvel if he figures out how to use his powers.Until then BM will be using him as a punching bag.
Starbrand tanking attacks from Hulk, Thor and universal strength Hyperion is no joke.
Yeah and BM took down Hyperion with just a few blasts. This is after taking punishment from Hyperion too.
Originally posted by zopzop
Proof? 😕
Past stories with the brand in them tells me more than I need to know for one. I also stated in a post several weeks ago that anyone judging Starbrand at that point should wait because they will likely be surprised. In other words you might want to think twice about judging the character right now.
Also anyone able to take a Mjonir strike like he did is certainly above High Herald. The Surfer would have groaned from such a strike. Just something to think about. Oh, and he didn't even know how to fully use the Brand at that point. BM doesn't got this.
Originally posted by Stoic
Past stories with the brand in them tells me more than I need to know for one.
There is no "past stories with the Brand". It, and the rest of the New Universe, was retconned by an @$$hole named Ellis in a series called "New Universal". The series was such crap that it didn't even make it to it's 8th issue and left the story hanging.
Another @$$hole, Hickman, instead of ignoring that trainwreck, decides to pick up where it left off!
So anything from the mid/late 80s Starbrand story, Gruenwald's run, and Untold Tales of the New Universe : Starbrand are gone.
As of now it (the Starbrand) grants Herald level durability and some moderate blasting powers but not much else.